2 Samuel - 5
1 - Then came all the tribes of Israel - to David - unto Hebron - - , and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
2 - Also in time past, when Saul - was king over us, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel - : and the LORD said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel - , and thou shalt be a captain over Israel - .
3 - So all the elders of Israel - came to the king to Hebron - - ; and king David - made a league with them in Hebron - - before the LORD: and they anointed David - king over Israel - .
4 - David - was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.
5 - In Hebron - - he reigned over Judah - seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem - he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel - and Judah - .
6 - And the king and his men went to Jerusalem - unto the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land: which spake unto David - , saying, Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither: thinking, David - cannot come in hither.
7 - Nevertheless David - took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David - .
8 - And David - said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to the gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind, that are hated of David - 's soul, he shall be chief and captain. Wherefore they said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.
9 - So David - dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David - . And David - built round about from Millo and inward.
10 - And David - went on, and grew great, and the LORD God of hosts was with him.
11 - And Hiram king of Tyre - sent messengers to David - , and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built David - an house.
12 - And David - perceived that the LORD had established him king over Israel - , and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel - 's sake.
13 - And David - took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem - , after he was come from Hebron - - : and there were yet sons and daughters born to David - .
14 - And these be the names of those that were born unto him in Jerusalem - ; Shammuah, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon - ,
15 - Ibhar also, and Elishua, and Nepheg - , and Japhia,
16 - And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphalet.
17 - But when the Philistines heard that they had anointed David - king over Israel - , all the Philistines came up to seek David - ; and David - heard of it, and went down to the hold.
18 - The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
19 - And David - enquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up to the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the LORD said unto David - , Go up: for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into thine hand.
20 - And David - came to Baalperazim, and David - smote them there, and said, The LORD hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters. Therefore he called the name of that place Baalperazim.
21 - And there they left their images, and David - and his men burned them.
22 - And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
23 - And when David - enquired of the LORD, he said, Thou shalt not go up; but fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees.
24 - And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself: for then shall the LORD go out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines.
25 - And David - did so, as the LORD had commanded him; and smote the Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gazer.
